Those people must be crazy or simple with envy.
She's simply light years ahead of the usual kid, who just play games and eat junk food all day.
https://au.sports.yahoo.com/amphtml/young-weightlifter-sparks-social-media-debate-034654318.html
Those people must be crazy or simple with envy.
She's simply light years ahead of the usual kid, who just play games and eat junk food all day.
https://au.sports.yahoo.com/amphtml/young-weightlifter-sparks-social-media-debate-034654318.html
Brazilian Guy wrote:
Those people must be crazy or simple with envy.
She's simply light years ahead of the usual kid, who just play games and eat junk food all day.
https://au.sports.yahoo.com/amphtml/young-weightlifter-sparks-social-media-debate-034654318.html
Wrong. Lifting heavy can cause growth plates to fuse. Common wisdom says to stick to 3 sets of 10 for the vast majority of person's lifting until they stop growing.
Good job on her for lifting that much weight a couple inches, but it's very irresponsible of her trainer.
Definitely not lifting bodyweight, unless she weighs 94 lbs.
Yeah, you're right.
Kids shouldn't be lifting at their max.
But if her coach or father knows something, she's probably not max lifting all the time, and a one-off just to show her progress shouldn't harm her long term.
https://www.healthline.com/health/does-lifting-weights-stunt-growth#3
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My son is 8. He plays club soccer. He is on the bottom level of a four tiered system. The kids on the top level are already traveling for matches. They are insanely good for 8. The attrition rate for the top level kids is over 50%. By high school, maybe 1 in 10 will still be playing. The kids in the lower ranking groups gradually catch up if they stay with it and end up on the top squad by HS.
Pushing elementary age kids to excel at sports is just a bad idea in general. They always burn out and rarely stay with it. There is no reason for little kids to be spending any time in the gym lifting weights. It is boring for them and they do not really start to gain muscle until they hit puberty. 7-8 year olds should be free to play and just do some limited organized sports. Parents need to back off and let their kids be kids.
XChurdler wrote:
Definitely not lifting bodyweight, unless she weighs 94 lbs.
Oh, good point.
Shame on me. Should have said around/almost twice her body weight. (Average weight for a 7 year old girl around 20-25kg, 40-50 pounds)
I agree with your point that kids shouldn't be forced to engage in an activity that they don't enjoy.
But as long as it's not causing her any damage isn't it the same thing as putting kids in swimming classes, music classes, languages (that don't give an edge when looking for a job) classes, etc.
I mean, weight lifting isn't just a toll to get better at other sports, is an enjoyable activity in itself (despite me not enjoying it very much).
Is the stunting of growth caused by weight lifting too young the reason that so many guys on muscle beach seem to be elevation underprivileged and while massively stocky?
Every healthy person can “lift their own body weight,” dude. If you couldn’t, you’d be bed bound.
YES.
Napoleon Complex? wrote:
Is the stunting of growth caused by weight lifting too young the reason that so many guys on muscle beach seem to be elevation underprivileged and while massively stocky?
Weight lifting is one of the few sports where short limbs and a long torso is advantageous. I dont doubt some of those guys might have stunted their own growth but it's more often the case that they chose an activity they could be successful at doing.
Deadlifting her own body weight big whoop lol matt london could probably deadlift the equivalent of 3x his own body weight.
Kids that haven't hit puberty shouldn't be lifting weights. I coach my daughters' competitive soccer team. We are in the third of four tiers (silver) and at our club there is a premier team that travels out of state and plays year round and plays about 4 tournaments a year that I feed kids into (because they tend to lose about 2 kids a year, at this point about half their roster is my former players). My team plays spring and fall and I have them do general conditioning and fundamentals work 1-2 times per week during the spring and summer. I haven't released my daughters to the premier team (in spite of the fact that they are better than any of the kids at their positions and have been asking for them for years) because I don't want them burning out. My daughters also have started running track and cross country in the past year and are gifted at that (even more so than soccer). It is better to have kids playing multiple sports, as they develop strength in multiple muscle groups and do not develop the overuse injuries that come from doing the same repetitive motions year round (kids that compete in the same sport year round are about three times as likely to get injured as kids that do multiple sports). As bad as soccer can get, gymnastics is far worse. Gymnasts have insane levels of stress fractures and chronic pain issues later in life. One of my teammates from college's wife was a cheerleader at our university and she has dealt with a myriad of injuries later in life.
Brazilian Guy wrote:
I agree with your point that kids shouldn't be forced to engage in an activity that they don't enjoy.
But as long as it's not causing her any damage isn't it the same thing as putting kids in swimming classes, music classes, languages (that don't give an edge when looking for a job) classes, etc.
I mean, weight lifting isn't just a toll to get better at other sports, is an enjoyable activity in itself (despite me not enjoying it very much).
Isn't the "not doing any damage" kind of an open question? You can do permanent damage deadlifting with bad form. I suppose it's probably OK with good coaching, though.
After all, nobody gets outraged about kids playing football or skiing or biking, which are objectively pretty dangerous.
You're just rationalizing raising mediocrity. My boy is only six and a half years old and he's already playing on the U9 national team. Did he get there because I've been pushing him relentlessly since he could walk? No! He got there because he loves the game and pours his blood and sweat into it every day. I didn't just "force" him to run Carolinas in the middle of a 95 degree day, he CHOSE to do that because he has the will of a champion. In fact, we named him "Champion" because it was clear he had that kind of grit in him from the moment he was born.
Napoleon Complex? wrote:
Is the stunting of growth caused by weight lifting too young the reason that so many guys on muscle beach seem to be elevation underprivileged and while massively stocky?
Steroid use at a young age will also cause early fusion of growth plates.
It's criminal to have a 7 year old girl lifting heavy weights. It would be much better to have her out running 6 or 8 miles a day to make her heart and lungs stronger.
Are you even listening to yourself? Your kid sucks and you're allowing him to be awful at life. Being awful at life means he will have a hard life. He will have a bad job or his job still be taken by someone who is better than he is at it. If he sucks at soccer (and he does), take him out of soccer and find something he excels in. I can't believe you can even post that and not feel like a total failure.
Kids do not learn life skills on their own by being "free to play." Be a damned parent. You are doing your child a disservice by poorly preparing him for the rat-race.
This thread is about a seven year old girl power lifting. Not good. No young person should lift like that. You then stated your son is not doing that well in club soccer. You took a shot at the kids who are doing well. First, it is rare for anyone to make it to the top of any sport. Most who make it, did start young. We have heard stories of a very small number of black African soccer goalies who switched to basketball at age 17 and made it to N.B.A. We have heard a very few stories of guys 6'4" 285 lbs. as high school junior who decide to go out for American football. Almost all elite swimmers started very young. All top ballerinas started very young. It is impossible to get one's body to do ballet unless one starts very young. There are no stories of a ballerina showing up to an elite school of ballet at age 17 and doing well with no prior ballet experience. It's true most kids do not become professional athletes, but it is usually also true, if one does not start young, one will not be a professional athlete.
coach wrote:
Napoleon Complex? wrote:
Is the stunting of growth caused by weight lifting too young the reason that so many guys on muscle beach seem to be elevation underprivileged and while massively stocky?
Weight lifting is one of the few sports where short limbs and a long torso is advantageous. I dont doubt some of those guys might have stunted their own growth but it's more often the case that they chose an activity they could be successful at doing.
That and they take up weightlifting because they are short and improves their self-esteem.